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mikl_plkcc, on 2025-February-21, 17:49, said:
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I tried to do that tonight (board 8) and I was told that I shouldn't do that.
I held 17 HCP 4=4=3=2 and pulled it to 2H, as they were likely to have an 8-card fit and I was told that it was a bad bid because I didn't have 5 in the suit.
I tried to do that tonight (board 8) and I was told that I shouldn't do that.
I held 17 HCP 4=4=3=2 and pulled it to 2H, as they were likely to have an 8-card fit and I was told that it was a bad bid because I didn't have 5 in the suit.
You should compete over 2♣, but there is a better way than bidding 2♥. Instead, you double for takeout, asking partner to pick one of the other suits. Partner is supposed to prefer a major over a minor, and they also can pass with good enough clubs to think that 2♣ is going down.
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On board 15, we bid 4H at red, they bid 5D at green, I bid to 5H and ended up down 1 as I thought they would make, but the fact was that they would have gone down 3.
I held 2 small ♦, partner held 1, how the heck would we know 5D would get down 3?!
I held 2 small ♦, partner held 1, how the heck would we know 5D would get down 3?!
They have 10 diamonds. You have 8 hearts. You pretty much know this.
That makes 18 total tricks. According to the Law of Total Tricks, if they make 5♦ (11 tricks), you only take 7 tricks and go down 4 in 5♥. (Sometime the Law is off, but not by that much...) So bidding 5♥ as a sacrifice is out at the given vulnerability. You might bid it to make, but I don't think that's too likely either.
You have more than half the points in the deck, including what looks like 2 sure club tricks (probably not 3). Do you really think partner with an opening hand doesn't have an A or a KQ somewhere that will take a trick?